Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated]

Ponca City, We Love You writes "USA Today has an advance story on Google's plans to announce a new operating system, geared specifically for cellphones with partners that include Sprint, Motorola, Samsung and Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo. Although details won't be released until later today the new G-system will be based on Linux overlaid with Java and Google hopes to have a branded device ready for worldwide shipment by spring. Mobile Web browsing is notoriously slow and Google plans to change that by providing easy access to the Internet at PC-type speeds. Google plans to basically give away the software developer tools, used by programmers to write new applications. "If you're a developer, you'll be able to develop (applications) for the new Google Phone very quickly," said Morgan Gillis of the LiMo Foundation. AT&T and Verizon Wireless are noticeably absent from the coalition not wanting to support a device that favors Google over other providers. Sprint, the No. 3 carrier, supports the coalition, but it hasn't formally agreed to make the Google Phone available to its 54 million subscribers." Update 1727 GMT by SM: It's official, Google is releasing the mobile "Android" OS in place of the Google branded mobile phone that many expected.

Comments

Google phone, long awaited

[BadAnalogyGuy]

The new operating system will be called GNU/Goo/Do/Mo/SpriSamSun/Linux.

I, for one, welcome our new alliterative overlords.

Re:AT&T?

[morgan_greywolf]

But that's different. Apple isn't Evil(tm) and Steve Jobs is a Demigod(tm). The iPhone is an innovative product that will revolutionize the world! Thanks to Jobs' powerful vision, we will all live in one happy Apple Utopia(tm)!

Am I getting the MacFanboySlashdotGroupThink(tm) thing right, guys?

Re:Need Women's Opinions

[somersault]

I'm a man, you insensitive clod!

Re:AT&T?

[elrous0]

Why is it that, every time I see a true Apple fanboy post here, I always get an image of James Earl Jones in "Conan the Barbarian," beckoning one of his followers to come to him by walking off a cliff?

WIFI

[halfmanhalfpint]

So when Google gets into WIFI hotspots will they call them G-spots?

Re:WIFI

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably not, because geeks would never be able to find them.

Re:Java on the G-phone.

[Anonymous Coward]

so what, now i have to code in java to contribute anything

Jeez you people are spoiled. There's not a single thing that can be announced without some whiney brat crying about how he's been slighted.

Re:Need Women's Opinions

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, please leave age/sex/location? Kthx.

Re:What version of Java?

[eric2hill]

It gets better! Sun also has the Sun SPOT embedded development kit. Hopefully Google and Sun will collaborate and come up with the G-SPOT.

Re:AT&T?

[djdavetrouble]

Which reminds me, a good application for this new phone would be a pop up laser that kills iphones dead to death.
You may be thinking , "why not just kill the owner and stomp on the iPhone?",
well, we want to see the owner break down in tears of course !

(this is all because I can't afford one, and am stuck with a stupid Sidekick, actually)

Re:What version of Java?

[aichpvee]

Will this be called JavaXP?

Re:It's offical

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I am an Apple Fanboi

No you aren't. Your post is balanced, informative, and includes an explicit acknowledgement that while you like Apple products you recognise that they also have their flaws. That makes you an Apple-hating Windows weenie, I'm afraid. Please hand in your Mac and buy a beige box immediately.